Who shall control my media? Part 2 - Infrastructure
The infrastructure I’ve had our media setup on has changed quite a bit over the years, too. When I first started streaming stuff, I was using UPNP servers to serve a D-Link streamer. It worked pretty well for the first generation of this type of product. I used DiVX to encode our DVD collection, and things weren’t bad. I then migrated to MythTV and things were significantly better. It could handle more video containers, more codecs, and it could handle our recordings. We used nothing bug Myth until about 3 years ago, when I got a deal on a Sony streaming box. The Sony device was clunky and not fun to use, but it did let us stream Netflix. It was quickly replaced with a Roku 3 that I picked up at Costco when it was on sale. That was the beginning of the end for MythTV.
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